Sioux City Journal
Sioux City, Woodbury Co. Iowa
April 20, 1870
SUDDEN DEATH
Information was received in this city on Monday of the sudden
death on the evening before of Mr. Nelson SHAW, who left here on
Wensday previous to take up his residence on a homestead in
Plymouth county, about five miles east of Le Mars.
[transcriber note:this would be between Le Mars and Remsen]
Mr. SHAW was 56 years of age, a native of New York state, and
came here in June of last year. During the past winter he resided
on the west side, and has been a great sufferer of rhuematism,
which disease, it is supposed, caused his death. At the time he
left here he was much reduced in health, and the disease seemed
to have concentrated in his head, affection his eyes, so that he
covered them with bandgages. His occupation was that of a
carpenter and joiner. E. H. SHAW, a brother of the deceased, is
absent in Minnesota. The father of the deceased, and the
brother's wife went to Le Mars on Monday to attend the funeral.
Mr. SHAW leaves a wife, and three children --- two grown-ups and
one at 5 years of age.
Sioux City Journal
Sioux City, Woodbury Co. Iowa
April 21, 1870
The engine, Chas. E. Vail, which brought the Wednesday
noon passenger train of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad,
broke her driving spring while under full motion, a few miles
south of Sloan station. Engineer PRESCOTT immediately stopped and
repaired it, and ran at an increased rate of speed, to recover
lost time. We were told that the breaking of the spring cracked
like a pistol explosion, and that the boiler settled down on the
side of the broken spring to a considerable extent.
[transcribers note: a part of the archives on microfilm at the
Aalfs main library in Sioux City, IA]
W. D. MOORE, of the Depot Hotel, goes out to Cherokee to-day, to
make arrangements for the erection of a railroad eating house, at
that place. He does not intend to remain in Cherokee --- we
believe he has a partner in that house --- but will continue with
use, and exercise a personal supervision, as heretofore, over the
Depot Hotel.
Sioux City Journal
Sioux City, Woodbury Co. Iowa
April 24, 1870
AN ORDINANCE to construct a side walk on south
sixth and fourth street from the west side of Pearl street to
Parry Creek bridge on Fourth street, in Sioux City last addition.
BE IT ORDAINED by the common council of Sioux
City, Iowa, that there shall be built on or before the 1st day of
June 1870, a side walk in front of all lots or parts of lots
contiguous to the following boundaries, to-wit; commencing on the
south side of fourth St., were Pearl St. joins said street,
thence running west from the west side of said Pearl St., on said
south side of Fourth St. bridge across Parry Creek in Sioux City,
east addition.
Sec. 2 Said side walk shall be built of
good sound cottonwood, two inch plank, six feet in width, laid
crosswise of said walk, the outside edge of said sidewalk to be
on line ten feet from the lots and said planks to rest on three
braces, not less then four by six inches of cottonwood and placed
on a solid foundation , and the said side walk to be one foot
above the level of the ground - and the same to be built as the
City Supervisor mat direct or approve.
Sec. 3 The said side walk shall be built
and completed by the owners of the lot or lots contiguous there
to on or before the 1st day of June 1870, and in case any or all
of the owners of said lot or lots fail to comply with the
requirement of this ordinance, in the manner and time of
building, or of the materials furnished for said side walk. It
shall be the duty of the City Supervisor to direct the same to be
taken up and relaid, or he may if necessary direct the building
of the same in a manor most advantageous and cheapest to the
city. And he shall keep an account of the cost thereof in city
warrants. And the expense thereof shall be assessed on a tax
lected in the manner provided by law. Provided that so much
of said side walk as crosses any street or alley, shall be built
at the expense of the city and not assessed against contiguous
property.
Passed April 19th, 1870.
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AN ORDINANCE to construct a side walk on the
west side of Water St. from Sixth St. to Seventh St., in Sioux
City, East Addition
BE IT ORDAINED by the Commen Coucil of Sioux
City, Iowam that on or before the 1st day of June there shall be
built a side walk on front of all lots or parts of lots
contiguous to the following bounderies, to-wit: commencing on the
nroth side of Sixth St., where Water St. joins said street,
thence running north on west side of Water St. to the south side
of Seventh St. on said Water St., in Sioux City, East Addition.
Sec 2. Said side walk shall be built of
good sound cottonwood, two inch plank, six feet in width, laid
crosswise of said walk, the outside edge of said side walk
to be on line ten feet from the lots and said planks to rest on
three braces, not less then four by six inches of cottonwood and
placed on a solid foundation , and the said side walk to be one
foot above the level of the ground - and the same to be built as
the City Supervisor mat direct or approve.
Sec. 3 The said side walk shall be built
and completed by the owners of the lot or lots contiguous there
to on or before the 1st day of June 1870, and in case any or all
of the owners of said lot or lots fail to comply with the
requirement of this ordinance, in the manner and time of
building, or of the materials furnished for said side walk. It
shall be the duty of the City Supervisorto direct the same to be
taken up and relaid, or he may if necessary directthe building of
the same in a manor most advantageous and cheapest to the city.
And he shall keep an account of the cost thereof in city
warrants. And the expense thereof shall be assessed on a tax
lected in the manner provided by law. Provided that so much
of said side walk as crosses any street or alley, shall be built
at the expense of the city and not assessed against contiguous
property.
Passed April 19th, 1870.